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Saturday, February 6, 2010

It's raining men!

I have a question.......

Can you teach Ru-Paul to be a soldier?

If you are lost by this question, I am happy to explain what I mean. Everyone that has read my lil 'ole blog knows that I am in the military. I have 10 years active duty and the last 2 I have been in the reserves. I am in Washington State now taking an advanced leadership course.

Anyways, at lunch today some of my classmates and I were discussing the policy "Don't ask, Don't tell". All of the cats I was talking to (including me) could care less if a soldier is Gay or Straight as long as they can shoot straight, and we can depend on them to have our back if we need them to. We have all served with dudes or females that we suspected of being Gay. So in my opinion, being Gay in the military is no big deal.

What we were discussing was, when this policy becomes null and void, how do you train a man who thinks and acts like a woman, to be a soldier in a man's Army?

Thinking a soldier is Gay and knowing a soldier is Gay is two different things.

Everybody I have ever served with has known a dude or a woman who they thought was Gay. But they kept their private lives private and they soldiered on.

But when this stupid law is repealed, I would bet that there are going to be some flaming red, Gay, Ru-Paul ass dudes that join the military just to prove that they can.

This is going to be a problem.

First, some of these dudes are going to want to wear Lip-stick and nail polish and fancy hairstyles with their uniforms, like the rest of the women. How can you deny them? This would be grounds for lawsuits.

Second do you change the physical fitness standards to accomodate the men that are petite and fragile like women?

Third, there are a lot of homophobic assholes in the military. With the Ru-Paul brigade coming out of the closet, there is going to be an increase of hate crimes in the military.

I wonder if the people that are redoing this policy has thought of this?

I think that it is a disgrace that a Gay person cannot serve their country with pride the way a "straight" person can. But in an institution as old as the military that is still ran by "christian" White men that is just as old, well some things will never change.

I think that once this law is repealed, there is going to be a lot of backlash against Gay soldiers.

8 comments:

I spent a little over six years in the military. In fact my term of service ended at Fort Lewis, Washington with the 1st Special Forces group. And yes, the gays are already there and most of the time, we had a good idea of who the gays were.

But of course as soon as the law is appealed, you can expect some nuts to do something completely stupid out of complete ignorance.

Them gays gonna start getting uppity! We got to put them in their place.

Any violence they brought that upon themselves for 'flaunting it' blah blah blah..."

Sad but I have to agree that its stupid for a gay soldiers to come out. The military is all about Machismo, unquestioned patriotism, and who has the biggest gun.

Not exactly an institution that is capable of being more accepting of gays than general society. General society doesn't exactly accept gays so expecting a highly regimentalized and conformist military culture to react with less hostility/violence is not realistic.

Strikes me as being in the same vein as the problem of women in combat roles. Too much sexual tension and the very real possibility that a small amount of retards are going to engage in idiot behavior after getting liquored up.

lipstick and nail polish and hair styles like women? the dress code isn't going to change, what military are you in? women/men regardless of how they themselves classify their gender to the public eye, if the Doctor giving you the physical at MEPS says you are male/female guess what? you're going to conform or go home. besides, there is such a thing as military bearing that everyone has to follow when IN uniform.

I've never served, but I have the feeling that men will be less inclined to piss a large group of other men off.......particularly men carrying guns. I'm thinking, that's not a smart thing to do.

I'm interested in seeing how this turns out though. In the past whether in private industry or in the military much was made of something that turned out to be a non-event. I just wonder if this turns out to be yet another non-event.

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